Pensions (Increase) Act 1920
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1920 c. 36 |
Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920.
(10 & 11 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 36.
An Act to authorise the Increase of certain Pensions.
[16th August 1920]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Power to increase certain pensions.
(1) The pensions payable to pensioners to whom this section applies, and in whose case the conditions laid down by this Act (in this Act referred to as statutory conditions) are fulfilled, may, so long as those conditions continue to be fulfilled, be increased by the pension authority by an amount not exceeding the limits laid down in the Schedule to this Act.
(2) The pensioners to whom this section applies are pensioners who at the date of the passing of this Act are in receipt of pensions granted before the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen, and, subject to the limitations laid down in Part II. of the Schedule to this Act, pensions granted on and after that date—
(a ) under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914;
(b ) under the Elementary School Teachers' (Superannuation) Acts, 1898 to 1912, or under the code of regulations for public elementary schools, or under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908 ;
(c ) under the National School Teachers' (Ireland) Act, 1879 ;
(d ) under the enactments relating to the pay and pensions of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
(3) The increase shall have effect as from the first day of April nineteen hundred and twenty.
2 Statutory conditions for increase of pension.
2. The statutory conditions for the increase of pensions under this Act are:—
(1) The pensioner must reside in the British Islands;
(2) The pensioner must have attained the age of sixty years, or have retired on account of physical or mental infirmity, or, in the case of a pensioner who is a widow and is in receipt of a pension payable in respect of the services of her deceased husband, must have attained the age of forty years;
(3) The pensioner must satisfy the pension authority that his means, including his pension, are less than one hundred and fifty pounds a year, if unmarried, or two hundred pounds a year, if married.
3 Application to pensioners of police, local, and public authorities.
3. The Treasury after consultation with the appropriate Government department may, by order, authorise the application of the foregoing provisions of this Act, including the Schedule therein referred to, to pensioners in receipt of pensions granted by any police, local, or other public authority, and thereupon such police, local, or other public authority shall apply such provision to pensions granted by them.
4 Regulations.
4. The Treasury may make regulations for carrying this Act into effect and in particular—
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